I Guarded the Nation's Border for Ten Years. When I Returned, My Wife's Child Was a Month Old

I guarded the nation's borders for ten years, only to be repaid with tales of romance between my wife and the capital's greatest literary talent. On the eve of my triumphant return, she sent me a divorce agreement and a baby just one month old. In her letter, she said she and the scholar were true lovers, the child was his, and begged me to let them be together. To appease her powerful family, the emperor even issued an edict arranging their marriage, making me a laughingstock throughout the land. On their wedding day, the enemy army advanced on the capital, and the city was under threat. The ministers knelt outside my residence, begging me to lead the troops. My wife came too. Holding another man's child, she wept and said that if I drove back the enemy, she would return to my side. I